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Mount Merrion House - The N Avenue

The N Avenue of Mount Merrion.
Now North Avenue.

The drives to the N and W of Mount Merrion, on 1887 to 1913 map.
[Ball, vol.2, 1903] says: "through the park stretch away two drives, one disused and grass-grown leading under an archway of noble trees to Foster's Avenue, and the other, commanding lovely views of Dublin and its bay, leading to Mount Anville and Dundrum."
The N drive was then overgrown, but later became North Avenue.
The W drive became Deerpark Road.
[Wilkinson, 1925] says about the disused N avenue: "A second double avenue of great elms still marks the road which leads to Merrion Castle by way of Foster avenue, a relic of the days when my Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam rode up from his stronghold, down by the sands of Dublin Bay, to hunt the stag in the hills."

The Deer Park, Mount Merrion, must be c.1800, by William Ashford.
Used here with the kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Looking E to the sea. Dublin Bay and Howth Head in distance.
This might be the modern Deerpark Rd.
Or it might be the modern path inside Deer Park that runs along the N boundary of the trees from the church to the Mount Anville gates.
Also here.

"Mount Merrion: view from the gate in Owenstown avenue", 1806, by William Ashford.
Used here with the kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
"Owenstown avenue" must be Foster's Ave, so this would be the modern N avenue. But then the hill doesn't seem right.

"Mount Merrion: view of the north terrace from the upper end of the north avenue", 1806, by William Ashford.
Used here with the kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
This is the ha-ha wall, which survives today.
This is around the lane between the playground and the shops on Deerpark Rd. See street view.

The ha-ha wall today.
Photo 2012. See full size and other shot.
See another shot from Mount Merrion 300. Used with permission.

"Mount Merrion: view of the fir grove from the west side of the north avenue", 1806, by William Ashford.
Used here with the kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

"Mount Merrion: view of the bay from the upper end of the north avenue", 1806, by William Ashford.
Used here with the kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

St.Thomas' church, Foster Ave.
From [Mount Merrion Estates, 1925-26].
See 1887 to 1913 map and modern street view.

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